Lyric discussion by moosescoops 

I think it's about the music industry, and how it kills originality and creativity and passion and all the beautiful things about music. The music industry (the committee, who chooses what constitutes music) is fighting to imprint its music on you (your neural walls and your plasticities=memories); independent musicians are fighting to keep music accessible and personal. I'd imagine some people protested the closing of CBGB in New York; they were pretty much destined to lose (waterloo), but independent artists will still keep making art, and creating things of beauty (the "precious territory" could be the concept of art, or beauty). No idea what's going on with the whale, though. Maybe we fat Americans sit in our cubicles, biting our nails about the future, when a little beauty would sooth our souls?

@moosescoops I think the whale comment is more about being stuck in a place that doesn't fit. Whales are big. Cubicles are small xD

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